Example sentences of "be [adv] [adj] in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Narcotics are widely available in prison , with prison officials illegally selling heroin to inmates , sources say . |
| 2 | The two brothers are rather similar in method — and neither is cast-iron solid in the tackle or as a goal-kicker . |
| 3 | By a happy coincidence , those quarries which have proved difficult to separate by stable isotope analysis have very different trace element compositions , and some with very different stable isotopes are rather similar in trace elements . |
| 4 | Clearly some sensory input is necessary , but this and the amount of thought required are rather small in comparison with the motor response required . |
| 5 | Unfortunately , Piaget 's accounts of these studies are rather lacking in frequency data so the extent to which the children psychologized is not clear . |
| 6 | They stated that none of the background reports or assessments had been carried out , and stressed that these are fundamentally necessary in order to determine what is in the children 's best interests . |
| 7 | This should not be taken too literally — not every rock in the crust is a granite — things like limestones are vastly different in composition — but the average composition of all the rocks on the continents is about that of granite and contains over 60 per cent of silica . |
| 8 | There are also some general tools for locating reviews retrospectively , but they are mostly American in coverage . |
| 9 | By contrast in Java , where the crust is relatively young and thin , the volcanic rocks are mostly intermediate in composition and the large ash sheets indicative of highly explosive eruptions are scarce ( see Chapter 5 ) . |
| 10 | In practice , it has been this area which has been most significant in relation to land development and planning policies . |
| 11 | The arrival and departure of winter visitors appears to overlap a small passage which has been most obvious in spring , when regular sea-watches have recorded small easterly movements , involving up to 25 birds annually , between early March and early May . |
| 12 | remains of pellets or scats are often diagnostic , but they are rarely present in fossil assemblages ; |
| 13 | The tegulae ( paraptera of some authors ) are a pair of small scale-like sclerites carried at the extreme base of the costa of each fore wing : they are rarely present in connection with the hind wings . |
| 14 | In natural sediments the grains are rarely uniform in size and few are spherical , so that the unknown elements in the analysis render the mathematical problem of interpreting the original grain size populations from thin section insoluble ( Blatt , Middleton & murray , 1980 ) . |
| 15 | The role of loyal officers and police in the events of 17–20 July demonstrates that while the rising may have been predominantly military in character it was far from being a rising of all the military . |
| 16 | However , where no express or implied contract exists , as for example will be the case where third parties come by confidential information , the rights are presumably equitable in nature . |
| 17 | Vinelott J. said that ‘ No doubt the court can disallow … costs , charges and expenses which are wholly unreasonable in amount . ’ |
| 18 | But it is becoming increasingly difficult to maintain that the behavioural products of human imagination and of ape imagination are wholly different in kind . |
| 19 | Despite the vast amount of money it has squandered the CIA has been remarkably unsuccessful in warning America about genuinely important hostile acts by Russia and her allies . |
| 20 | Given that the government must raise some tax revenue , the smallest amount of total waste will be achieved when the goods that are most inelastic in supply or demand are taxed most heavily . |
| 21 | They are most useful in education , because students are able to get a fast turn-round while at the same time learning the principles of operation of a particular software package , and in draft map production , where a cartographer is experimenting with different map designs . |
| 22 | All insects are most active in summer ; though seldom apparent on cold , sunless days , those of the high tundra must be able to hunt , feed , evade predators and reproduce at temperatures which would immobilize species from lower latitudes . |
| 23 | They are most obvious in cinema and television . |
| 24 | In moving towards a satisfying identification of some entity , the mind of a speaker will naturally tend to describe it initially by matching its roughly perceived whole against those properties that are most common in use and perceptually basic . |
| 25 | It will centre on the themes which are most predominant in adult human experience : on freedom , justice , relationships , morality , suffering and happiness ’ ( 6 ) . |
| 26 | A whole series of studies , he admits , appear to demonstrate that there is a broad agreement concerning the relative worth of different occupations , which apparently supports the functionalists ' contention that it is possible to identify those positions which are most important in society . |
| 27 | In this way Brown ( 1979 ) devised five formative phases in the evolution of Britain which are necessarily unequal in length and almost plotted on a logarithmic time scale . |
| 28 | Whereas biological agents have hitherto been less efficient in total kill , speed of kill and activity spectrum , they are also attractive — resistance to them in natural pest populations is infrequent , and they can present fewer hazards to operators and the environment . |
| 29 | The systems approach has necessarily been identified with a positivist approach and as such has been less resilient in human ( Johnston , 1983a ) than in physical geography . |
| 30 | These qualities have always been present in the metaphors and similes of poetry but they have been less frequent in painting , which in the past was largely concerned with reproducing external reality , with decoration , or , as in the more advanced movements of recent years , with the composition of color and line into formal design . |